Vladimir Pucik is Professor at the Institute of International Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Dr. Pucik was born in former Czechoslovakia, where he studied international economics, law, and political science. Later, he received a master's degree in international affairs - specializing in East Asia - and a Ph.D. in business administration from Columbia University. Before joining IMD, he was the Academic Director of International Programs, at The Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies at the ILR School, Cornell University, and Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Business, the University of Michigan. He also spent three years as a visiting scholar at Keio and Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.

His research interests include human resource management, globalization processes, strategic alliances, organizational transformations, and comparative management with a particular emphasis on the Far East and Eastern Europe. He has published extensively in academic and professional journals, as well as contributed to a number of books and monographs in the area of international business and human resource management.

Dr. Pucik's most recent major work is: Globalizing Management: Creating and Leading the Competitive Organization. He has consulted and conducted workshops for major corporations worldwide, including Avon, BASF, British Airways, Citicorp, Continental AG, DHL, Dow-Corning, FMC, GE, GM, Gillette, IBM, Kodak, 3M, Natwest, Nokia, Sony, Upjohn and Whirlpool. Dr. Pucik also teaches regularly in a number of executive development programs in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.